Originally Posted by
jmoore
I recently read a hint on how to avoid flipped seams (it may have been in Bonnie Hunter's Allietare mystery) that in piecing with your seams nested, you feed your top seam facing the back of your machine while the bottom seam will lie toward you... that way you can guide the top seam under your presser foot correctly and you won't have to worry about what's going on underneath. When you have the bottom seam facing toward the back, the feed dogs catch and flip ... many of you probably already know this but I thought it was an ah ha moment for me.
This is the way I do it. When I press long rows of blocks, I make sure the seams are pressed one way on the even numbered rows and the other way on the odd numbered rows. When I take the first two to be sewn, I choose a set that will go under the needle the correct way.
But the correct way is to the right of the needle. Sew each pair to the right of the needle. Then when you sew the pairs of two each, they will be sewn to the left of the needle the normal way. No matter how large the quilt is, if you sew all the pairs to the right of the needle, the rest will be to the left as usual.
I hope you can make sense of this.